I guess I am just playing catch-up with everything that has been going on Stampin' Up!-wise for the past year in my life this week! Today I am taking a walk down Memory Lane to Founder's Circle in September 2008!
After flying us in to Las Vegas, Stampin' Up! boarded us onto this bus for the ride into beautiful St. George, Utah, in the heart of Red Rock country! During the ride I had a chance to talk to other top-level demos who had earned this getaway too!
I had opportunities to get lots of great ideas and take lots of pictures for class ideas:
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We each had our OWN ROOM at the hotel in St. George, and had plenty of good food time to relax! One day we took a bus trip to Kanab, Utah, to visit the stamp manufacturing plant:
We were able to tour the plant floor (no pictures allowed), but we were allowed to take pictures in Shelli's private apartment upstairs. Here's me sitting on Shelli's bed!
Beautiful, although the pic is fuzzy!
The entire apartment was decorated exactly as I would expect Shelli's home to be, elegant yet comfortable, and filled with unique antiques! Here's her kitchen:
We ended our day at Kanab with lunch at the local park where Stampin' Up! has donated all the playground equipment and the surface under the jungle-gym was ground-up stamps! Stampin' Up! doesn't like to waste anything!
Of course, there were pillow gifts every night:
And of course a fun new stamp set for our Make n' Takes:
One new thing I learned is that is you put a piece of DSP inside a cello bag so you can punch it with an oval punch!
Our swap & share night in our jammies was great fun! The best holiday swaps ever!
And of course new stampin' friends: Kristina, Deb, Martha, me, & Barb!
All in all it was a wonderful trip and a great experience, something I would never had had the opportunity to do without Stampin' Up!
Hello! Sounds like you had a great time! Thanks for sharing. The “put a piece of DSP in a cello bag” instructions sound very interesting. Do you mean that you punch through the cello bag too? Does it only work for the oval punch? I guess for smaller pieces of DSP this makes it much easier to punch exactly where you want to, etc? Hope you are doing well. Blessings and a big wave from the other side of the planet! Hugs! Becky
Yes, you punch through all three layers at the same time! It’s really cool! I’m sure this would work with other punches too, not just the oval punch. The DSP was cut just the right size to slip down into the small flat cello bag so punching placement was easy!